Media Center Plugins And Skins
My Movies, the most popular and award winning add-on application for Microsoft Media Center adds another important step on its journey towards bringing users the ultimate Movie experience by adding a new Web service and a new Collection Management program. Århus, Denmark, February 1’st 2007 – Brian Binnerup, author of My Movies is proud to announce the release of […]
Read moreThose of you using Vista I'm sure have seen some of the new Online Spotlight apps such as Fox Sports Lounge, which just look so slick & make it feel like a true part of Media Center. I kinda woulda preferred Microsoft's launch to have all these new features ready AT LAUNCH, but I guess the trickle-effect does allow for […]
Read moreJust the beginning in what I'm sure's a bunch of developers updating their software to work with the slick new Vista plugin interface. Here we've got the following now working in Vista: System Monitor for Vista MediaCenter: This HTML Addin collects and displays data from SpeedFan (including System/CPU Temperature info) and displays it in TV + Remote friendly format. RocketBoom […]
Read moreUpdate for the super sexy Big Screen Contacts app. For those that are unaware of what it does: Big Screen Contacts allows you to browse, view and search your Contacts via your TV (via 10' MediaCenter interface) – and integrates with Windows Contacts provided by Windows Vista. Via Windows Contacts – you can also import contacts from Microsoft Office 2003/2007, […]
Read moreWhy would you want to do this? I had to go back to a previous blog, but, here's what he said about WiX v. 3.0: One of the biggest additions in WiX v3.0 is MSBuild integration for the Votive Visual Studio add-in for WiX. This means you can create a Visual Studio project (named a .wixproj), add it to the […]
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Chris Lanier, purveyor of MCE news, brings word that MCE Tunes 2.0 is out. New for this version is support for extenders. Its a pretty simple setup, all you have to do is run the config on your server and bam you should be have iTunes anywhere in the house. You can check out his blog post here. Plugin page: […]
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Chris caught word of an awesome lil MCE plugin which will detect & automatically record TV Shows based on your preferences & ratings. Not sure if it works with Vista, and the style is for XP, but it's awesome if you were looking for something TIVO-like. For the first time, Media Center users can rate their recordings with MyTV Genie, […]
Read moreSteven Toub has a pretty cool hack for Windows Vista Media Center that will allow you to skip around your television recordings or any other file you play in MCE with numbers for how many seconds you want to go into it. As part of that article, I implementing an add-in that made it easy to jump around in a […]
Read moreIan must have way too much time on his hands these days, as he continues to update his mceBackup software. This time around: updated mceBackup 2.0 to include backing up of atscchannels.xml, this the manual channel assignment for ATSC tuners Download the latest version here.
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